The use of the similar house-made 6/4 titanium most sensible tube as their ultralight Spezia street body, the brand new Litespeed Toscana claims to be the lightest manufacturing titanium gravel motorbike in the marketplace.
It stocks the similar size-specific tubing and tighter tolerances for tube wall thickness, too. And the insides of the top tube and backside bracket are machined to take away weight. The result’s a claimed body weight of simply 1,240g in length medium. That’s for the Toscana FI (Absolutely Built-in) style, and there’s a base style with usual cable routing, too. Let’s have a look…
Toscana Body Main points
The Toscana’s body options pass way past the real subject material, however the most sensible tube is value highlighting. Not like maximum tubes, this one’s folded from a sheet of 6/4 ti, which permits them to nice music the journey high quality.
A triaxially ovalized downtube has a partial teardrop form to “aerodynamically protect the water bottle” earlier than widening on the BB to maximise torsional stiffness.
The dropped driveside chainstay additionally creates extra tire clearance, as much as 700×48 gravel tires, whilst nonetheless permitting 2x gravel drivetrains.
The seatstays land at the facets of the highest tube. They are saying this wider stance provides lateral stiffness with out giving up titanium’s signature journey high quality, and it provides tire clearance.
The dropouts are moderately relieved to save lots of a couple of extra grams and are compatible a UDH for long term compatibility. Each fashions are introduced with Di2- or AXS-specific designs, however you’ll organize them with mechanical shift cable routing. That will give you the total vary of gravel drivetrains, together with the newest SRAM Apex XPLR and Shimano GRX teams, to not point out Campy Ekar.
Toscana Pricing & Choices
The FI style makes use of a bigger diameter head tube with their very own carbon fork and the FSA ACR cockpit to cover all cables and wires. An ENVE InRoute fork/bar/stem improve choice may be to be had. Those fashions use a threaded T47 backside bracket and are the lightest choice. Motorcycles get started at $7,550, and framesets are $4,550.
For many who love to stay it more practical (or save a couple of greenbacks), a non-FI style has usual inner routing. Those get started at $6,899 and include a PF30 backside bracket shell, however you’ll improve to T47. Claimed body weight for this usual model is 1,355g, which continues to be beautiful gentle for a titanium body. Frameset is $4,295.
Make a choice from usual vinyl decals or their TiDize colour anodization and etching for a extra customized glance. Frames are available in XS/S/M/ML/L/XL sizes.